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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529064759

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529064759

Author: Silvia Ferrara,Todd Portnowitz

This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning – in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America – and it certainly has a middle, one that snakes through the painted petroglyphs of Easter Island, through the great machines of empires and across the desks of inspired, brilliant scholars, the end of the story remains to be written.

The invention of writing allowed humans to create a record of their lives and to persist past the limits of their lifetimes. In the shadows and swirls of ancient inscriptions, we can decipher the stories they sought to record, but we can also tease out the timeless truths of human nature, of our ceaseless drive to connect, create and be remembered.

 

The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts 1st Table of contents:

1. Ante Litteram 3
2. Behind the Scenes
3. Stories
4. Fiction 7
5. Spark 9
6. Armchair Inventors 11
7. Nature
8. The Line 14
9. Things 16
10. Icons 18
11. Symbols 22
12. Undeciphered Scripts
13. Islands
14. Crete
15. Face Forward 29
16. Pioneers 31
17. As Good as New 32
18. House of Cards 34
19. Stray Cat 36
20. Syllables 40
21. Lost Language? 42
22. Cyprus
23. Mixtures 45
24. 1-2-3 47
25. Mine 50
26. The King’s Marbles 53
27. Almost There? 56
28. Intermission 57
29. Easter Island
30. The Center of the World 60
31. Miracle 62
32. Dodo’s Egg 66
33. Watch Your Back 69
34. Tantalus 72
35. Rebus 74
36. Invented Scripts
37. Cities
38. Bureaumania 83
39. An Imperfect Match 86
40. Invention, Intention 92
41. The Forest 94
42. Before the Pharaohs
43. Marketing 98
44. The Grammar of Creation 101
45. Encroachment 105
46. The Stone Guest 108
47. Sliding Doors 110
48. Between Two Rivers
49. Tokenism 113
50. Silent Moviola 116
51. The Ambiguous Rebus 119
52. United Nations 121
53. Chinese Turtles
54. From Scratch 127
55. A Disaster-Free Week? 129
56. The Glorious Life of Lady Hao 132
57. Don’t Call Them Ideograms 134
58. Across the Ocean
59. It Could Have Gone Worse 138
60. False Start, Long Life 142
61. Emojis 147
62. Living Souls 150
63. End of Story
64. Commonalities 153
65. Diderot 156
66. Experiments
67. Tradition
68. Telephone 161
69. Flops 162
70. Solitary Inventors
71. Blues Brothers 166
72. Migraine 168
73. The Alchemist 170
74. The Asemic 175
75. The Wizard 176
76. The Illiterate 179
77. Isolated Branches
78. Pokémon 182
79. Inca Paradox 183
80. Talking Knots 186
81. Beta Software 187
82. Darkness 189
83. Chutes and Ladders 192
84. Black Swan 195
85. Bestiary of the Indus 196
86. Entropy 200
87. Social Inventors
88. Reaching an Agreement 204
89. Brad Pitt 206
90. Alignments 210
91. Scrabble, Chess, and Scripts 212
92. Better to Be in Bad Company 214
93. Discoveries
94. Where to Begin
95. Quartet 219
96. Donald Rumsfeld 221
97. Any Other Stone 225
98. Scratch and Win 228
99. The Gold 232
100. Ten Commandments 234
101. How to Decipher
102. Extraction 237
103. Five Easy Pieces 239
104. And Now for the Sixth 243
105. Ex Machina 246
106. The Great Vision
107. First
108. Evolution 255
109. Necessity 257
110. Memory 260
111. Afterward
112. Late to the Party 265
113. Out of Sync 267
114. Mailbox 268
115. After the Wheel 270
116. Tomorrow
117. Icons: The Sequel 272
118. Dead Letter 274
119. Postscriptum 279
120. Essential Bibliography 285

 

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